Tell me your interesting flowers please?

[dairydebris]

I've always loved plants and recently got a bit into gardening and I absolutely love this quote-

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."— Iris Murdoch.

Which flowers do you find fascinating, odd, beautiful?

At the moment I'm watching an allium Christophii opening out with its spiky stars... it's so detailed! Why? How? How can something so amazing just be something I can buy and grow so easily?

Does anyone else feel like this?

About which plants?

I adore flowers, I feel like it about Alliums, tulips, Azaleas, I currently waiting for the bearded iris to open.
I have a dark wine pulsatilla with the most amazing seedhead.
Fuscia - you can also 'pop' the flowers open.
Snakeshead fritillaries are so unususal.
All the dahlias.
Aquilegias.
I love all my flowers, I talk to them and welcome them when they come back every year.
I also adore hostas and there is something very special about the unfurling of a fern.

Yes! Snakeshead fritillaria! You couldn't make them up 😍

Cerinthe major purperescens (sp?) is great- easy to grow from seed and really goth!

Angelica - like something from space. Passionflower - so dramatic. Alchamilla (so?) Mollis after the rain / beautiful

+1 for snakehead fritillaries. I have a toad lily that is spotty and beautiful. Peonies and oriental poppies are incredible

I especially love tulips, agapanthus, alliums, cerinthe, cosmos, hollyhocks and geum. I also love a hosta (although the slugs love them even more here).

Oriental poppies! All stuffed up inside their hairy little shell then one morning they just pop out and their colours! So intense!

I was coming on to say Cerinthe too. I love how they self seed and come back every year

I love fuschias. So many varieties, love the way the bud pops open and a little ballerina tutu bursts out 🥰

I saw what looked to be brown, dying leaves on my fatsia recently and was about to remove them until I realised they were new leaves unfurling 😂

I love auricula flowers. They are just so pretty and I love how they are held high above the plant.

My favourite flower out at the moment is Viburnum Opulus Roseum - just a gorgeous intricate globe of creamy white.

I always look for the beautiful Fuschia Flower Fairy, doing her ballerina pose, when I see a fuschia bush.
I’ve never seen one but I know they are there, hiding away from human eyes. She was DD’s favourite flower fairy.

For interesting flowers I like a cleome: weird and both spiky and soft at the same time.

Eremurus (foxtail lilies) look like they’ve come from outer space with their long spikes. Eucomis (pineapple lilies) look hilarious with their little tuft of leaves like a hat on top of the flower, and they flower forever. Allium bulgaricum and allium Art are nice and weird variants on the more traditional pompom alliums. I also love cannas, both for the amazing foliage (especially Durban and Cleopatra) and the flowers. Brugmansias look very exotic and have the sweetest perfume.

Some of my favourite flowers are very easy to grow from seed, like nicotianas, sweet peas and Californian poppies. I’m also very partial to pelargoniums, they have such big personalities 😁

@PinkCatCushiondo your cleomes smell skunky? I grew them for the first time last year and I agree they look stunning, but they’re really whiffy. It’s not enough to put me off, I’ve grown some again this year, but I’m wondering if all varieties have that smell. 🙏

I think agapanthus are absolutely beautiful, I’m fascinated by them. different tones in their
petals and how they all pack together to look so dignified and elegant all in a very quietly confident way.

I love my purple and white Snakeheads and Crown Imperials. I also think aquilegias are vastly underrated. The way one plant can self-seed in different colours and the many different flowers.
I have lots of tulip varieties, most still in flower, the parrot ones are so huge and beautiful. I visit RHS Flower Shows each year to find unusual types.
I also love roses. Not unusual maybe, but always amongst my favourites.

For me it's irises, especially historic ones (not the frilly ones). They're surprisingly scented as well.

Also mad on crown imperials but haven't had success with growing them (lily beetle gets them every time)